Course Code:

ENGL0807
Prerequisite:


COURSE OUTLINE
Credit Unit(s): 3 Lecture Unit(s): 3
Course Title: WORLD LITERATURE Lab Unit(s): 0
Effectivity:
SY 2007-2008
Document Code:
QR AAD 011
Revision No.: 00 Issue No.: 01
Date Issued:
April 16, 2007

Prepared by:
GLENDA A. BENDANILLO
Reviewed by:
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SECTION
Approved by:
ALMA V. DELA CRUZ, Ph.D.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course explores and analyzes the literatures of Asia, Africa, America, and Europe in the
cultural, psychological, historical, political, and cultural contexts of the different genres to be
studied. Critical issues such as origin and family, gender and identity, war and violence,
racial differences, ecological concerns, individual and community are the core points of
discussion.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of the semester, the student should be able to:
differentiate literary genres, and to describe and analyze literary works through class
discussion and writing;
analyze, explain, and interpret different uses of literary language, and to present those
analyses, explanations, and interpretations in a systematic, concise, logical, and
persuasive way;
recognize ethical and moral issues that may arise in literary works from different times
and cultures;
improve knowledge of the development of human attitudes towards religion, social
relationships, political attitudes, and the like in other cultures;
examine the attitudes and behaviors of your own culture through the perspectives of
people from other cultures;
improve knowledge about how people's value systems develop, grow, and influence their
attitudes, behaviors, and communications;
write and speak in a more interesting, illuminating, and persuasive way;
differentiate the communication processes;

COURSE CONTENT
I. ORIENTATION
1.1 Setting of house rules.
1.2 Discussion of the College Mission, Vision and Objectives.
1.3 Course Requirements
1.4 Grading System
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Course Code:
ENGL0807
Prerequisite:


COURSE OUTLINE
Credit Unit(s): 3 Lecture Unit(s): 3
Course Title: WORLD LITERATURE Lab Unit(s): 0
Effectivity:
SY 2007-2008
Document Code:
QR AAD 011
Revision No.: 00 Issue No.: 01
Date Issued:
April 16, 2007

Prepared by:
GLENDA A. BENDANILLO
Reviewed by:
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SECTION
Approved by:
ALMA V. DELA CRUZ, Ph.D.
This is a controlled document. Revision of this document should undergo the standard procedure. The original copy of this document is located
at the office of the Academic Affairs Department (AAD). The user should secure the latest revision of this document from the AAD office.
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COURSE CONTENT
II. Introduction
2.1 Review of the Elements of Literature
III. Approaches in Interpreting Literature
3.1 Formalism
3.2 Psychological
3.3 Moral
3.4 Socio-historical
3.5 Structural
3.6 Post-structural
3.7 Post-colonial
IV. Awakening
4.1 Araby (fiction) by James Joyce
4.2 Circumcision (fiction) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4.3 The Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
V. Across The Asian Shores
5.1 Sent To Li Po As A Gift (poem) by Du Fu
5.2 Addressed Humorously to Du Fu (poem) by Li Po
5.3 The Priest of Hardwork Mountains by Pu Sung-ling
5.4 Selections from Ramayana
5.5 Selections from Mahabarata
5.6 The Dahamapada
5.7 Haikus (poems) by Matsuo Basho
5.8 Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd
5.9 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
5.10 Rubaiyat (poem) by Omat Khayyam
5.11 In A Grove (fiction) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
VI. Perspectives in Love
6.1 Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day by William Shakespeare
6.2 Sonnet116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds Admit Impediments by
William Shakespeare
6.3 Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
6.4 The Flea (poem) by John Donne
6.5 A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield
6.6 Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
6.7 Come Live with Me and be My Love by Andrew Marvel
Course Code:
ENGL0807
Prerequisite:


COURSE OUTLINE
Credit Unit(s): 3 Lecture Unit(s): 3
Course Title: WORLD LITERATURE Lab Unit(s): 0
Effectivity:
SY 2007-2008
Document Code:
QR AAD 011
Revision No.: 00 Issue No.: 01
Date Issued:
April 16, 2007

Prepared by:
GLENDA A. BENDANILLO
Reviewed by:
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SECTION
Approved by:
ALMA V. DELA CRUZ, Ph.D.
This is a controlled document. Revision of this document should undergo the standard procedure. The original copy of this document is located
at the office of the Academic Affairs Department (AAD). The user should secure the latest revision of this document from the AAD office.
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COURSE CONTENT
VII. Coping with Loneliness
7.1 The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock (poem) by T.S. Eliot
7.2 In Exile by Anton Chekhov
7.3 Rose For Emily by William Faulkner
7.4 The New Dress by Virginia Woolf
7.5 The Sound of Silence (song) by Paul Simon
7.6 Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
VIII Crossing the Colors
8.1 Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara
8.2 Six Feet of The Country by Nadine Gordimer
8.3 Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
8.4 Things Fall Apart (novel) by Chinua Achebe
IX. Universal Women
9.1 Tell Me, Mother (poem) by Gabriel Mistral
9.2 Day of Wrath: Schoolboy's Tale (fiction) by Christina Stead
9.3 To the Uncultured Lesbian Woman by Sappho
9.4 The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
9.5 Kay Meorou Abendanon Mandiri (poem) by Raden Adjeng Kartini (translated by
Ruth Elynia Mabanglo)
X. Coping with Poverty
10.1 Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (fiction) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10.2 I Have A Terrible Fear (poem) by Cesar Vallejo
10.3 The Taximan's Story (fiction) by Catherine Lim
10.4 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
XI. Death, Where Is Thy Sting
11.1 Because I Could Not Stop For Death (poem) by Emily Dickinson
11.2 A Man Falls to His Death by Cirilo Bautista
11.3 Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night (poem) by Dylan Thomas
11.4 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
XII. Greek Literature
12.1 Oedipus Rex (drama) by Sophocles
12.2 Lysistrata (drama) by Aristophanes
XIII Novel
13.1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Course Code:
ENGL0807
Prerequisite:


COURSE OUTLINE
Credit Unit(s): 3 Lecture Unit(s): 3
Course Title: WORLD LITERATURE Lab Unit(s): 0
Effectivity:
SY 2007-2008
Document Code:
QR AAD 011
Revision No.: 00 Issue No.: 01
Date Issued:
April 16, 2007

Prepared by:
GLENDA A. BENDANILLO
Reviewed by:
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SECTION
Approved by:
ALMA V. DELA CRUZ, Ph.D.
This is a controlled document. Revision of this document should undergo the standard procedure. The original copy of this document is located
at the office of the Academic Affairs Department (AAD). The user should secure the latest revision of this document from the AAD office.
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RECOMMENDED REFERENCES
1. Rosenberg, Donna. World Literature, Latest Edition. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Inc.
2. Gochberg, Donald, et.al. World Literature and Thought, Latest Edition. Wadsworth
Publishing.
3. Alcazar, Tita M. et al. Effective Speech and Oral Communication. Manila : CEU, Latest
Edition.
4. Pizer, John David. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice.
Louisiana State University Press (March 30, 2006).

GRADING SYSTEM

Prelims Midterms Pre-Finals Finals
Quizzes 40% 40% 40% 40%
Class Standing 10% 10% 10% 10%
Major Exam 50% 50% 50% 50%
TOTAL 100% 100% 100% 100%
Final Grade = 20% Prelims + 20% Midterms + 20% Pre-Finals + 40% Finals